Truly Blessed
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I was relaxing in our living room recliner, reading the newest selection of my book club, when the phone rang. Scrambling up, I managed to answer it on the third ring. “Mom,” said the voice at the other end of the line that I recognized as that of our youngest son, Jim. “Will you and Dad be home on Memorial Day?” “Well, your dad and I have a few errands to run in the morning, but we should be here the rest of the day,” I replied. There was a slight pause. Jim then continued, “I want to talk to you and Dad about something.” We chatted a moment before the call ended, but I couldn’t help wondering what was so important that Jim felt he had to check to make sure that both Bob and I were going to be home before he drove over. I settled back again in my recliner, but my thoughts were no longer on my book.
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About the Book
When author Nancy D. Price’s son Robert Kevin Price was born with a congenital cataract and was profoundly deaf and severely retarded, she and her husband, Bob, began a journey through unchartered waters, trying to find help for their second child, their first-born son, Robbie. In Truly Blessed, Price begins her family’s story where her first book, Living with Robbie, ended. She tells how she and her husband made the painful decision to place Robbie, then seven years old, in a state-run institution. They brought him home several times a year so their other four children would realize he was a part of the family. As the memoir continues, Robbie is an adult and his parents are aging. Price also faces her husband’s slow decline due to Alzheimer’s disease. The book tells of the effect that both her son’s and her husband’s limitations have had on her and on her other four children.
About the Author
Nancy D. Price earned a child psychology degree from Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts. She worked in the banking industry for twenty-three years. Retired, she is an advocate for a number of organizations. A mother of five, she lives in a retirement community in Pennsylvania. This is her second book.